What Do You Think of PhotoSynth?

We haven't had the time to test out local software company Microsoft's PhotoSynth for ourselves, but have you? What do you think--is the new elaborate automatic panorama service more than or merely as useful as the Google Maps confirmation that cows prefer to stand aligned north/south? Warning: if you go to www.photosynth.com using an old-ish browser, you'll get chastised by a pop-up window. "Still using IE6 I see," is the (verbatim) message we received. Ouch! Straight to the heart!

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This is what I got:

Unfortunately, we're not cool enough to run on your OS yet. We really wish we had a version of Photosynth that worked cross platform, but for now it only runs on Windows.

Oh, and I'm sure they are sincere about REALLY WISHING they could run on other platforms, too.

You use Explorer? You should update to Firefox at least.

I use Firefox, the latest version, at home -- and apparently a dinosaur of a browser here at work!

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Installed and uninstalled in one fell swoop. I only care about viewing synths, not creating them. Maybe next time, MSFT.

I don't have a good enough video card for them at home*, and don't have install permissions at work.


* My video chip's only 3 years old, and was near top-of-the-line then. They recommend a new one, which should "only" cost around $50 - not quite worth it to try out free software.

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